SEE REVELATION. Further, that Babylon is Rome is evident from the explanation given by the angel in Re 17:18, where it is expressly said to be "that great city which ruleth over the kings of the earth;" no other city but Rome being 'n the exercise of such power at the time when ...
The English word also was formerly applied by Protestants to the Church in Rome, in reference to the woman "arrayed in purple and scarlet" in Revelation xvii.5 ("And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth")....
17:6 Reference to the great wealth and idolatrous cults of Rome. 17:6b–18 An interpretation of the vision is here given. 17:8 Allusion to the belief that the dead Nero would return to power (Rev 17:11); see note on Rev 13:3. 17:9 Here is a clue: literally, “Here a mind ...
catastrophe that Kyd has had him devise, and the device that the has wrought is analogized both by the confusion of tongues wrought by the Lord at Babel and with the horrible destruction of both the historical and symbo...
The Chaldeans are the Catholics.See the proof here. 7 churches in revelation chapter 1 and not one named Catholic or Chaldean solid proof they are the Synagogue of Satan and the church of Esau. Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he ha...
One slightly worrying sign, in this sense, is that the initial announcement – a strangely rambling document written with a cat-like degree of distractedness – arrived with rather more than its fair share of vague and patronising corporate waffle, which included the revelation that the bursary ...
In 30 AD she rode on three cities in three continents: Rome in Europe, Alexandria in Africa, and Babylon in Asia. That ‘Great City,’ as The Revelation calls it, that is, earthly Jerusalem, was the epicenter of a strategic land bridge that governed world trade. Do you not know that ...
Revelation 18:24’s statement, “In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth,” might be a reference to Jesus’ statement of Jerusalem “that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be ...
The reference may be to the mighty divine warrior’s battle cry which accompanies his angry judgment.) Last but not least, the name occurs 31 times in the Book of Job. Job and his “friends” assume that Shaddai is the sovereign king of the world (11:7; 37:23a) who is the source ...
Babylon Revisited is a conclusion of personal and social collapse following the previous great decade. Fitzgerald had an imaginative sense of the experience of the 1920s, being a writer so closely related to his time that he was in danger of being wholly absorbed by his sense of it. “...